[pressgang] Quote of the Day, July 19, 2024

[prydonia]

Jenny:Are you kidding? Look, my Dad's a rich man, he's got all the right friends. He had that story killed in every newspaper that so much as glanced at it. So how come Kenny, the boy reporter, knows the whole thing?

Kenny:The boy reporter worked it out!

Jenny:How?

Kenny:An old man used the High Point lift just after your brother. And he said that it smelled like a cleaning lady's bucket. Which got me to thinking. Suppose your brother was sniffing solvents in the lift – I mean it'd explain the smell. Suppose he just went up to the top of the building for a bit of peace and passing out. Suppose he was so high…

She turns away from him.

Kenny:Jenny, I've heard of it happening. Kids so high on that stuff they think they can fly! Look my guess is he climbed on one of the barriers and just took off. The ground must have come as a bit of a surprise.

Jenny:Go home.

Kenny:What?

Jenny:Go home, Kenny. Now!

Kenny:(angrily) I don't understand you, Eliot!

Jenny:Yeah, I know.

Kenny:You spend two years drawing your brother's body on the pavement right where he fell ‑ you spend two years trying to be noticed ... And when somebody *does* notice, what do you do?

Jenny:Yeah! You're right! I wanted to be noticed. The trouble is, boy reporter, you noticed the wrong thing!

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